He told what started as a friendly conversation with a potential romantic interest turned out to be an elaborate trap countless others had fallen into.
Kurt Capewell said the video has hung over his head for several years.Ĭallum*, 30, was also tricked into appearing in a video on the same website. RELATED: Kurt Capewell speaks out over X-rated video from seven years ago The footballer’s comments about feeling tricked mirror the experience of another young man who wound up on the website, who also spoke the lies, deceit and manipulation that made it happen. It’s understood that reference is to a contraption that the young men being filmed stand on one side of, with a much older man concealed on the other, performing sex acts. The 27-year-old says the footage, on website and also available on various other websites, was from a time in his life when he was “young and naive” and chasing cash.Ĭapewell said he was coerced into taking part in the film with “inducements and extra money” after initially agreeing to be a part of a photo shoot he thought was legitimate.Ĭapewell, who is in a long-term relationship with a female, told teammates via text that he “got talked into doing an (adult film)” but “unknown to me it turned out they put a bloke on the other side of the wall”. Penrith Panthers star Kurt Capewell spoke up this week about an X-rated video of him engaging in a sex act with a male that was shot seven years ago under false pretences. It’s not representative of Lonegan, it’s representative of Rick Shaftan." Shaftan has accepted the blame on Twitter as well, saying, "On or off the record, my comments were inexcusable and unprofessional." This isn't the first time that TPM has caught a political aide ranting during this election cycle.The sinister tactics employed by an Australian gay porn website to take advantage of vulnerable young men have been exposed by those whose videos are circulating online forever. “I shouldn’t be talking anymore,” Shaftan told the Journal after the interview was printed. Shaftan's comments are not reflective of my views or that of my campaign," he said in a statement about his longtime adviser. Thankfully, Shaftan's boss thinks he's an idiot too, and promptly fired him for the "distasteful and offensive" comments.
Shaftan also compared Booker to Gary Hart and Larry Craig, because Shaftan is a fucking idiot. It's like, dude, you're bringing all this shit up yourself." Shaftan went on to say that the fact Booker didn't comment on "those great breasts" really makes you wonder, man: " It's just too odd and people they just wonder, like, who does this guy really want to work for? Who's he representing?" Later in the interview, Shaftan deflected his incisive inquiries onto Booker, claiming that since Booker has previously been asked about the rumors that he's gay (and he's been open about his homophobia as a young man), it's his fault Shaftan can't stop thinking about breasts and gay conspiracies: "It's just like, you know, he talked about being gay or whatever. To me, if I was single and you know like some stripper was tweeting me, I might take advantage of the perks of the office, you know?" It's just like like there was no sexual interest at all. " It was like kind of like, I don't know, it was like what a gay guy would say to a stripper. But like, he didn't say that," Shaftan explained. I mean, to me, you know, hey, if he said, 'Hey, you got really hot breasts man, I'd love to suck on them.' Then like, yeah, cool. The strategist, Rick Shaftan, told TPM that he was weirded out because Booker did not take note of stripper Lynsie Lee's "great breasts." This perturbed him, because if Booker talked about them, then he'd be cool, or something: The non-controversy blew away pretty quickly for most people, but one Republican strategist for rival Steve Lonegan went on a bizarre rant to Talking Points Memo, claiming Booker's tweets to the stripper were "strange" and "like what a gay guy would say." And you'll never guess what happened next. Last month, Buzzfeed published a breaking news listicle about NJ senatorial candidate Cory Booker, all about his fairly innocent and mighty boring Twitter exchanges with a vegan stripper from Portland.